John Quotes
Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.
Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
If you don't have a cause bigger than yourself, you won't get beyond yourself.
A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
The more clean you are in awakening to your own being, the more you'll be able to move your own being toward others. Your evolution as awareness is in the purity of thatit's in the cleanness.
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
